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To Improve Global Health, Bloomberg Looks to Cities to Lead

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07/05/2017

... gas emissions. Bloomberg not only made New York City a leader in this area as mayor, but funded and also chaired C40, a ... funding, which has mainly prioritized reducing deaths from...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-Backed Study Sees Urban Change Via Google Street View

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07/06/2017

... way scientists study urban environments - with an assist from Google. In joint work with Edward L. Glaeser, the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard and César A . Hidalgo...

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Tillerson in Focus as Exxon Climate Change Investigation Intensifies

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07/06/2017

Tillerson in Focus as Exxon Climate Change Investigation Intensifies ... office considers the nation 039 ;s chief diplomat a central figure in a case that...

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Simons Foundation's SPARK Initiative is Calling on Dads With a New "Men of Action" Campaign

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07/11/2017

... Foundation 039 ;s SPARK Initiative is Calling on Dads With a New "Men of Action" Campaign In honor of all that fathers do to help raise and nurture ... " In...

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Century Foundation Fellow Argues for an "Economic Fair Housing Act" to Combat Racial Zoning

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08/04/2017

... outlawed racial zoning hardly ended racial discrimination in housing, as whites adopted biased policies like economic ... notwithstanding the disparate racial impact, we need a new “economic fair housing act”...

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Century Foundation Report Warns Online Learning Companies' Impacts on Public Higher Ed

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08/08/2017

... That 039 ;s even true of Harvard University, which announced a partnership with one of these online program management companies Monday. A warning about the nature of those arrangements --...

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Sloan Foundation Among Funders of World’s Smallest Neutrino Detector That Found A Big Physics Fingerprint

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08/08/2017

... Funders of World’s Smallest Neutrino Detector That Found A Big Physics Fingerprint After more than a year of operation ... at ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source and published in the journal...

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Pershing Square, Ford, Open Society Among Funders of Measures for Justice, Putting Data to Better Use

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08/10/2017

... crowded jails, tense courtrooms, and cops on the beat is a far cry from the air-conditioned spaces data wonks usually inhabit. ... Plenty of well-heeled funders are inclined to agree. In fact...

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The Mertz Gilmore Foundation Funds Contemporary Dance

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08/11/2017

... Valerie Green/Dance Entropy 039 ;s Impermanent Landscape, a contemporary dance performance in the round choreographed by Valerie Green and supported by ... Landscape is supported, in...

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Provides New Funding for Latinx Artists

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08/11/2017

... Arts and Cultures (NALAC) comes with new investments from the Andrew Mellon Foundation towards the NALAC Fund for ... Spaces (DAS) grant programs. This year, NALAC welcomes a new and rewarding partnership with...

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American Express Grant Supports Student Filmmaking

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08/11/2017

... to Reel Works supports filmmaking aimed to inspire a younger and more diverse audience to explore roles in conservation. The company is a premier partner of Find ... The documentary...

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Group Moves Toward Metrics to Ensure Impact Investments Really Have Impact

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08/14/2017

... Have Impact As more investors seek to use their capital as a tool for social change, a group of asset managers and ... of two new advisory councils stocked with heavy hitters from the world...

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Rockefeller Foundation Helping Cities with Novel Financing for Climate Issues

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08/16/2017

... floods, the Rockefeller Foundation is helping cities with a novel kind of financing, one that transfers some of the risk of innovative projects from cities to investors. The foundation, established with ... $...

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NoVo’s Radical Hope Fund a Result of Radical Listening

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08/17/2017

NoVo’s Radical Hope Fund a Result of Radical Listening NPQ has written in the past about the NoVo Foundation’s constituent-centric ... face today. NoVo’s mission—to foster transformation from...

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Podcast: A MasterCard Plan for Financial Inclusion

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08/21/2017

Podcast: A MasterCard Plan for Financial Inclusion In this interview ... credit-card company is utilizing resources and expertise from across its operations to address income inequality ...

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Simons Foundation's Flatiron Institute Joins IBM and Others including Citizens in the Microbiome Immunity Project

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08/23/2017

... Institute Joins IBM and Others including Citizens in the Microbiome Immunity Project The general public 039 ;s help ... to affect health. The Microbiome Immunity Project is a new, IBM-...

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Milbank Memorial Fund Releases Report on Telehealth Private Payer Laws

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08/23/2017

... Payer Laws Many state health policy leaders are interested in telehealth—the use of technology to deliver health care to patients in a setting different from that of the...

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The Commonwealth Fund Reports on Medicaid Expansion's Effect on Out-of-Pocket Health Care Spending for Low-Income Families

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08/25/2017

... Families The Commonwealth Fund recently released a study using data from the federal Consumer Expenditure Survey to examine how states’ participation in the Medicaid expansion affected...

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Carnegie Grant Helps Princeton Team to Use Virtual Reality to Help With Real-World Arms Control

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08/28/2017

... and New York City-based Games for Change were awarded a $414,000 grant last month from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the MacArthur ... provide governments with new opportunities for cooperation...

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